"Obviously Oswego" a hit at the Taste of New York

Submitted photoState Sen. Patricia Ritchie, R-Oswegatchie, visits with folks at the Oswego County booth at the Taste of New York reception Monday night. This event is held the night before Farm Bureau Lobby Day in Albany. From left are Ritchie, Valerie Walthert of Cooperative Extension of Oswego County, Shawna Gallton, chef at the 1881 Steakhouse in Oswego, and Nancy Weber, president of Oswego County Farm Bureau.

Albany, NY -- State senators and assembly members were able to mingle with Farm Bureau members from their districts Monday night at the annual Taste of New York event.

Bureaus from throughout the state cooked up tasty morsels for the legislators to taste and all were made with foods grown or raised in the various counties. This was the first year Oswego County has participated and they presented legislators with small pumpkin pies, braised beef served with mashed potatoes, onion tart hors d’oeuvres, cranberry applesauce and applesauce bread and sweet and sour braised cabbage.

All the vegetables, fruits and beef came from Oswego County farms.

Participating in the food event were Oswego County Farm Bureau, Cooperative Extension of Oswego County, an Oswego chef and 54 culinary students at Oswego County BOCES.

The event is held each year the night before Farm Bureau Lobby Day, in which Farm Bureau members talk with legislators to advise them of Farm Bureau's agriculture priorities for the year.